US4666264AExpiredUtility

Mirror using transparent synthetic resin plate

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Assignee: MARUI INDPriority: Jun 11, 1985Filed: Jun 11, 1985Granted: May 19, 1987
Est. expiryJun 11, 2005(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Taiji Yamabe
G02B 5/0866G02B 5/0808B60R 1/02Y10T428/31678
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Claims

Abstract

A mirror comprising: a transparent plate of a synthetic resin; a surface-hardening layer (a) coated on an entire surface of the resin plate; a reflective metal layer (b) deposited on the layer (a) of the back of resin, and a back-coat layer (c) closely covering the surface of the reflective film, characterized in that said metal layer is formed by a dry metal plating, said metal being selected from the group consisting of tin or alloy of tin and copper (Sn:Cu=1:less than 0.4 by weight), thickness of layer (b) being in the range of 700-1600 ANGSTROM and moisture permeability of layer (a) being smaller than those of layer (b) and layer (c) is disclosed.

Claims

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What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A mirror comprising: a transparent plate of synthetic resin;   a surface-hardening layer coated on all surfaces of the resin plate;   a reflective metal layer deposited on the surface-hardening layer of one side of the resin plate, and   a back-coat layer closely covering the surface of the reflective metal layer,   wherein said metal layer is formed by a dry metal plating, said metal being selected from the group consisting of tin and an alloy of tin and copper (Sn:Cu=1:less than 0.4 by weight), the thickness of said reflective metal layer being in the range of 700-1600 Å and the moisture permeability of said surface-hardening layer being substantially smaller than those of said reflective metal layer and said back-coat layer.   
     
     
       2. The mirror of claim 1 wherein said metal is tin. 
     
     
       3. The mirror of claim 1 wherein said metal is an alloy of tin and copper (Sn:Cu=1:less than 0.4). 
     
     
       4. The mirror of claim 1 wherein said dry metal plating is vacuum metallizing, sputtering or ion plating. 
     
     
       5. The mirror of claim 1 wherein said synthetic resin is polymethyl methacrylate. 
     
     
       6. The mirror of claim 1 wherein said surface hardening layer is formed essentially of an organosilicone polymer. 
     
     
       7. The mirror of claim 1 wherein the front and back surfaces of the resin plate are both flat and are not parallel to each other.

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